Family members suing West Palm Beach over a police street unit’s chase that resulted in two of their loved ones dead are citing new evidence of past misbehavior, according to legal documents filed this week in federal court.
That evidence was brought to light by a WLRN investigation from January, which reported how officers in the West Palm Beach Police Department’s “GHOST” unit left a trail of disciplinary issues and warning signs well before the deadly chase and crash that killed Jenice Woods, 27, Woods’ unborn child, and Marcia Pochette, 57, on July 30, 2024.
Prosecutors said seven West Palm cops, five of whom were in the Gang & Habitual Offender Suppression Team (GHOST), led a high-speed chase into Boynton Beach that ended in a deadly wreck, killing Woods and Pochette. Instead of stopping to help, they turned around and drove back to West Palm — without telling anyone what happened, according to the 15th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s office…